Barry Hilliard, mitigating, said his client was ashamed to be in court. He worked on a farm 50 to 60 hours a week and, in connection with that work, he had been the youngest person in Cornwall to obtain a bus licence, which was needed to drive foreign workers about the farm. It was £200 of his own money which he had invested and would now lose when his licence was taken away.

Smith was fined £400, ordered to pay £110 costs and surcharge and banned from driving for 15 months.

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